Found: Stephen King’s horror novel ‘Thinner’ turned into poetry

We came across this creative project on Scribd by Matthew Lee Knowles, who took the first and last word of every page of Stephen King’s Thinner and married them side by side. The resulting narrative is surprisingly poetic, like something the Surrealists might have come up with. Who would have thought that a horror novel about a curse that wreaks havoc and spawns murders and suicides could have inspired something so enchanting? Here it is:

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